Two teenagers die in head-on collision in Southwest Montgomery County

Two people died Friday morning in a head-on collision near Nichols Sawmill Road at Roberts Cemetery Road in Southwest Montgomery County.

Two people died Friday morning in a head-on collision near Nichols Sawmill Road at Roberts Cemetery Road in Southwest Montgomery County.

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Two people died Friday morning in a head-on collision near Nichols Sawmill Road at Roberts Cemetery Road in Southwest Montgomery County.

Two people died Friday morning in a head-on collision near Nichols Sawmill Road at Roberts Cemetery Road in Southwest Montgomery County.

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Two teenagers die in head-on collision in Southwest Montgomery County

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WEST COUNTY - Two teenage girls died when their car hit a pickup truck in a head-on collision Friday morning on Roberts Cemetery Road near Nichols Sawmill Road in far Southwest Montgomery County, a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper said.

Anne Donlon, 19, of Hockley, and Katie Walker, 19, of Tomball, were traveling south in a 2004 white Ford Taurus that Donlon was driving from Crooked Creek Road near Nichols Sawmill around 10:30 a.m., Trooper Jonathan Aldridge said.

The car was negotiating a sharp curve on Roberts Cemetery Road while heavy rains were falling, he said, and Donlon overcorrected and lost control of the car.

A white Dodge Dually truck, driving north on the same curve, attempted to swerve out of the way but couldn't, Aldridge said. Both vehicles went into the ditch, almost going into a nearby creek bed.

Donlon and Walker, who a DPS dispatcher said were students, were pronounced dead by Precinct 5 Justice of the Peace Matthew Masden shortly after DPS received the call at 10:38 a.m., Aldridge said. The Taurus passenger door was almost completely pushed into the driver's side of the vehicle, he said, and much of the vehicle's front end was damaged.

Magnolia firefighters had to extricate both women's bodies from the Taurus, Aldridge said.

There was simply "too much water on the road" when Donlon tried to negotiate the curve, Aldridge said.

The driver of the truck was taken to Tomball Regional Hospital.

Brian Kelley, who just moved into a home on Crooked Creek a few months ago, said he witnesses drivers skidding off the curves on Roberts Cemetery Road "all the time."

"This is a highly-traveled road," Kelley said. "After it rains, you'll see where someone swerved off the road and hit a sign, or tire marks going off the road."

The bodies of Donlon and Walker were taken to Metcalf Funeral Home, Aldridge said.